Traffic is up on border bridges, and may bolster holiday sales.
BUFFALO, N.Y. — With its important economic impact on Western New York, we are still closely following the cross border travel situation with Canada as it relates to COVID.
Canadian leaders did issue a new policy Wednesday with the new variant. It is just a travel advisory, instead of outright new restrictions for Canadians.
The Canadian government held a press briefing Wednesday afternoon to urge its citizens to avoid non-essential foreign travel because of the spreading COVID Omicron variant in the provinces. But it is not yet an actual ban on such travel, including to the United States.
That advisory will be reviewed in four weeks and perhaps is setting the stage for more definite action. And it may cause some Canadians to think twice about coming to the United States as they cross one of our Western New York international bridges.
That’s a concern for John Percy who is President of Destination Niagara USA. He says, “With the advisory people are going to couple with that, and maybe even pull back from, maybe a perspective trip or potential trip that they had planned here to cross the…
